It's true that the word 'democracy' originates from the Greek term for 'rule of the people'. However, in modern contexts, words often evolve and take on different meanings. When we speak of 'AI democratisation', we typically refer to making AI accessible and available to
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Google’s Missed Opportunities: Hadoop and PyTorch Success Stories
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The story for both is pretty similar: Google didn't fully invest in the success of either, leading to another group creating an open source version and swiping the hearts and minds of developers. The former in the form of Hadoop, the latter with PyTorch (stewarded by Meta)
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Developers Exploring Llama 2 Capabilities on Vertex AI Platform
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We can’t wait to see what devs are able to build as they get hands on with Llama 2 on Vertex AI!
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Llama 2 and Code Llama Models Now Available in Vertex AI
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Llama 2 and Code Llama models are now available in the Vertex AI Model Garden — more details from @GoogleCloudTech
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Lemur: New Code LLM Based on Llama 2
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Oh, and there was also Lemur last week. A code LLM not based on Code Llama but based on LLama 2 directly! https://
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Fine-tuning Llama 2 7B on Single GPU A100 and Google Colab
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You can finetune a 7B Llama 2 model on a single GPU A100 for example, so you could even use Google Colab. But in general, most universities and companies are supportive of open source these days.
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MoE vs Specialized Models: Questioning Current Practical Utility
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Yeah. But unless you want to have a generalist model for all languages, is it really that useful to have a MoE approach compared to say the CodeLlama-34B-Python version? I mean eventually things might move to MoE but maybe it’s not that big of a deal atm.
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Hardware Expert Misunderstands ML and Open Source Movements
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one thing that was clear was that it was written by a Semi analyst — with all of the biases and shortcomings and misunderstandings that you'd expect from someone who deeply understands hardware, somewhat misunderstands ML & products and poorly understands open movements.
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LangChain Twitter Fine-tuning Example Repository
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example of that here: https://
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